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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Fairies on Cherries Christmas Ornament

Fairies and Unicorns Celebrate Christmas

We made this year's Christmas ornament inspired by our current favorite unicorn book. Unicorns and fairies immediately spark imagination and fill children's colorful and shining pretend world. They won the first place out of all our Christmas craft ideas hands down.

Christmas ornaments inspired by children's books: links to more ideas and inspiration from this season's project "10 Days of a Kid-Made Christmas" can be found at the end of this article.

Goodnight Unicorn

Goodnight Moon was our favorite during toddler and preschool years. This new book "Goodnight Unicorn" (A Magical Parody) by Pearl E. Horne resembling an old favorite, and at the same time, has it's own "magical" qualities.

"Goodnight unicorn lovers everywhere" - these last words of the story are accompanied by a child sleeping in a familiar room dressed up in a unicorn pajamas. How very precious and recognizable! But the book doesn't end there. There are "Unicorn ology" pages at the end of the book.

We cut 6 inch squares of red tissue paper. We applied white glue all over the paper, crumbled it, and rolled in between the palms to form spheres. While still wet with glue, cherries were poked with the green stem, and the glitter was sprinkled (optional).

Fairies:

Wrap some yarn around a carton tube.

Take it off the tube and tie it with a piece of thread.

Cut the yarn on the opposite side, collect it together and tie it again to form a fairy's head.

Fairy's arms are made of two stems. Separate yarn into two parts, insert the arms between the parts of yarn. Cut up the string of tulle. Tie the tulle under the arms to form a waist line and wings.